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Debian / Wesside-ng & Easside-ng

« on: May 14, 2008, 06:43:40 pm »

You've got one of those "gold" stickers on the back of your cell phone too don't you.

/me wonders if BarryW is on netstumbler.org forums... :-/

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Debian / Package Troubles

« on: May 13, 2008, 09:49:12 pm »

I have whatever's in the default rootfs. I'll try that, except maybe with Lenny.

How do I make the version in the repo automatically overwrite what's installed?

Thanks.

EDIT: Is that EABI or OABI?

Not sure what you mean by version numbers...  Just update your sources.list and then do the following.

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apt-get update && apt-get install $software
I am running EABI.

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Debian / Package Troubles

« on: May 13, 2008, 05:54:51 pm »

What is in your sources.list?  I commented out all of the entry's present and placed this line in and have had no apt issues.  Du's have been smooth also.  You could change sid to etch and be fine I think.

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deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free

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Debian / Setting Up Wifi With Wpa

« on: May 13, 2008, 01:29:44 pm »

Here is the list of required packages for etch.

http://packages.debian.org/etch/wpasupplicant

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Debian / Why Is Debian Slow?

« on: May 12, 2008, 12:50:31 pm »

Nope. I'm running the Yonggun kernel with the rootfs referred to above, and things take several seconds to load (even Rxvt).

EDIT: OK, maybe not several seconds, but a few.

Speed is the same here.  I figured it was normal on the arm arch.

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Debian / Setting Up Wifi With Wpa

« on: May 12, 2008, 10:55:29 am »

Hi everyone,
i'm running zdevil rootfs and younggun latest kernel on my slc1000, so far everything works great.
The only thing that bugs me is that i don't know how can i enable WPA wifi with this distro.
I've done some research and tried a lot of stuff in /etc/network/interfaces
like using iwpriv wireless-tools commands :

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pre-up iwpriv eth3 set AuthMode=WPAPSK
pre-up iwpriv eth3 set EncrypType=TKIP
pre-up iwpriv eth3 set WPAPSK="mykey"
but set command isn't available.

also using this syntax:

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wireless-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wireless-key "mykey" when i try : /etc/init.d/networking restart
i get the error "Set mode" and also "Set Encode" saying that mykey is an invalid argument

i can see my wifi card with iwconfig it's just that it doesn't associate.

my wifi CF card is a Linksys WCF12 which should have WPA support according to some researches on google.
I saw that another tool can do the same as wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant. do i need to install this one or am i missing something here?
I've never had any problems with Wifi using WEP , but never done it with WPA.

thanks for your help

AFAICT, wpa supplicant is not installed.  It is required for wireless with wpa.

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apt-get install wpasupplicant

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Debian / Icehamster (was: Customising Minimo)

« on: May 09, 2008, 11:07:36 pm »

I had to

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dpkg --force-overwrite -i  /var/cache/apt/archives/libts-0.0-0_1.04_armel.deb && apt-get install -f

Yep, that works, mikeones!

 

Hmmm...now, it's asking if I want to change '/etc/ts.conf' or not.....

Did you accept the new version of this file or leave the old one?

I went ahead and accepted the new version....then after that a lot of other files got updated/configured....

UPDATE:  I now have a touchscreen calibration problem....cursor in IceWM is way off....

I try quitting IceWm and then running 'ts_calibrate' but it opens and then quickly closes.....console shows quite a few lines of calibration related text saying that it took readings from different points.....

Just checked '.profile' and it says the following related to touchscreen:

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export TSLIB_TSDEVICE="/dev/input/ts0"
export TSLIB_CONFFILE="/etc/ts.conf"

Just checked '/etc/ts.conf' and it has everything commented out EXCEPT for the following lines:

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module_raw input

module pthres pmin=1
module variance delta=30
module dejitter delta=100
module linear
Any suggestions as to how to get touchscreen calibrated again???

Thanks!!

Always (99% of the time) choose not to update the config file.  I chose to keep my current config.  You can however type "D" to see for your self what changes will be made.

I always run ts_calibrate from within icewm.  Just pull up a console and run ts_calibrate.  You may have to su to root 1st if you are running as a non-privileged user.

Here is my /etc/ts.conf

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module_raw input grab_events=0
module_raw corgi
module pthres pmin=1
module variance delta=30
module dejitter delta=100
module linear

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Debian / Icehamster (was: Customising Minimo)

« on: May 09, 2008, 04:04:45 pm »

dpkg: error processing icehamster (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  minimo
  icehamster[/code]

If you get dependency problems when installing a package using dpkg, try:

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apt-get -f install

Thanks for the suggestion, datathief....my main concern was whether or not forcing the install and upgrading the dependent packages might break my current setup, that is working nicely right now....

Meanwhile....just tried

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#apt-get -f install
and now get more error messages.....

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#apt-get -f install
Reading package lists.... Done
Building dependency tree.... Done
Reading state information.... Done
Correcting dependencies.... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  python-gtk2-doc   libneon25  python2.4-minimal   python2.4   libhunspell-1.1-0
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
   libts-0.0-0
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   libts-0.0-0
0 Upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
320 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/29.1kB of archives.
After this operation, 143kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database... 38092 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking libts-0.0-0 (from .../libts-0.0-0_1.0-4_armel.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libts-0.0-0_1.04_armel.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/ts.collie.so', which is also in package 'libts-0.0-0
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/libts-0.0-0_1.04_armel.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned error code (1)

It clearly didn't like that!.....

 

Hmmm....did some further looking on the Debian forums....

Please see thread Apt-get Issues

which in turn references another Debian thread Mod Libdirectfb & Libts Packages, ... will fix apt-get dist-upgrade issues

that relates to the libts issue.....in fact I had posted on it and noted problems related to this....which ended up later leading up to my re-installing Debian EABI again....

Any suggestions please??

 

Thanks!

I had to

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dpkg --force-overwrite -i  /var/cache/apt/archives/libts-0.0-0_1.04_armel.deb && apt-get install -f

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Ubuntu / Ubuntu Frisky Firedrake Available...

« on: May 07, 2008, 03:37:54 pm »

Nice write up.  I will give this a look...

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Debian / New Titchy_linux Install Help

« on: May 07, 2008, 12:20:21 pm »

Reguarding the network.  I can talk to my z from my debian (sidux) box so I know it is on the network.  I saw the part about not having pump installed so I went with static ip etc.  Not sure where else to look.  I will redownload the cd and try it again. Thanks.

I had similar problems getting the base titchy install working. At the end formatting it with mkfs -T vfat /dev/sdb1  and loading all files directly on the sd-card solved my problems   . For me, formatting was the trick.

  I should have mentioned this too. My biggest stumbling block was that I could only install from a 128 MB card. Larger cards would not work for me.  There were other reports on this subject with suggested work rounds.

I also found that I got unreliable results with deleting the files on the SD card, after a failure, and simply copying the install files back. I seemed to need to format the card and start with a brand new 'blank' file syatem.  

Hope you are having success: I know you'll be having fun!

Thanks guys.  I basically found that during the "Loading of additional components" the installer would stop and complain about not being able to read from the CD-rom.  I just moved on.  I have installed Eabi as detailed here https://www.oesf.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=25029.  About to configure networkig etc. Glad I kept my Z around...

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Debian / New Titchy_linux Install Help

« on: May 06, 2008, 06:03:46 pm »

Reguarding the network.  I can talk to my z from my debian (sidux) box so I know it is on the network.  I saw the part about not having pump installed so I went with static ip etc.  Not sure where else to look.  I will redownload the cd and try it again. Thanks.

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Debian / Sources.list For New Install

« on: May 06, 2008, 05:43:41 pm »

When you succeed in installing Titchy you will find that the sources.list is put there for you.   You'll then see that, yes the OABI aka ARM repos are not the same as the EABI aka ARMEL ones.

Thanks.  Kinda struggling with the install now... Started another thread for that.  Hoping to resolve that issue.

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Debian / New Titchy_linux Install Help

« on: May 06, 2008, 12:36:28 pm »

I am following the guide here http://wiki.neilandtheresa.co.uk/Titchy_Linux/Installing.  I have tried the debian-40r3-arm-businesscard.iso and  debian-40r3-arm-netinst.iso with the same results.  My progress gets past the language options and past the missing kernel modules but fails when looking for the cd-rom.  

I can get back to the main menu and detect/configure my wireless card.  This works fine and then I try as described in the guide, "Load installer components from CD" and install the "choose-mirror" component which works but when the installer tries to load the choose-mirror component it complains about not being able to read/find the cd.  Next I drop down to ash shell and ls /cd-rom.  Nothing is there.  Am I missing something?

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Debian / Sources.list For New Install

« on: May 06, 2008, 12:16:27 pm »

I am moving towards installing debian on my 3200 but am not sure about what the proper /etc/sources.list is once I have installed from netinst.

Also, once installed and the proper sources.list added, can the OS be kept up via dist-upgrades and apt-get install linux-image-2.6.xx the way lenny can be maintained?

 Assuming that you are talking about EABI: then the pinned thread about Up to date repositories for ... will give you the answer about your sources.list.  

Whether you are using EABI or the TitchyLinux installation dist-upgrade will work.  However, you should not do the 'apt-get install linux-image-2.6.x' because altering the kernel is done by the flashing method on the Zs.  

HTH.

I am startting with TitchyLinux installation.  Will the sources be the same?  Is there a separate repo for the sources on OABI?

Thanks

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Debian / Sources.list For New Install

« on: May 05, 2008, 04:30:17 pm »

I am moving towards installing debian on my 3200 but am not sure about what the proper /etc/sources.list is once I have installed from netinst.

Also, once installed and the proper sources.list added, can the OS be kept up via dist-upgrades and apt-get install linux-image-2.6.xx the way lenny can be maintained?